My hideout place in this funny world...

Maybe-not-really-20-something-anymore from Norway who likes to scrapbook and take photos documentarystyle and dreams of photojournalism when not working as a photojournalist and that's pretty much what this blog is about. And I like it this way.

Alright! This layout is my contribution to this weeks Dare; "beauty in something overlooked". Well. Overlooked for sure. For months actually. Until it turned like this. Cool! And yes. That's a chair. Outside our house. Our old chair. None of us brought it back in again since last fall. Bad us! Bad! And look! The same chair also graces my new blogbanner. Lucky overlooked chair! Now. If anybody's clever enough to figure where the quote at the bottom of the banner comes from just go on.

Anyways. I've been blown out, floored, amazed, gaga'ing over photowebsites lately. I want to be a photographer when I grow up! Dang, there's so much lovely yummy eyecandy out there - links below in my norwegian text (lazy? yep). One thing they have in common? I see that I need to be better at editing, to believe that manipulating the colors of reality isn't that bad. Most of these photos seem to have some kind of filter - either lens or digitally added. They seem to be saturated aswell - and more. Hm. Once in a blue moon I've been able to capture such vibrant colors all by myself & the SLR (I think that's happened twice or mayyybe thrice to me) - but most of the time I need to edit the photos if I'm gonna be able to "spice" up the reality somewhat. Is that a bad thing? Good? As long as the photos will turn (even more) fabby in the end - it can't be that wrong? (and boom I've got that song "if it makes you happy" on my mind out of a sudden. yay.) What do you guys think?